Script to Identify product Cut-Out Photos required
Posted: 2015-06-23T07:38:22-07:00
Overview of Imagick Requirement.
We operate an image library
The pictures we carry are either:
a) Product cut-out Shots on a white or off-white background
b) Normal photographs with depth for Campaign Images, Model Images or Lifestyle shots.
We want to create a simple image search filter that allows the user to select
a) Product cut-outs Images
b) By definition everything else that is NOT a cutout. e.g. Normal Photos with a
background etc.
The challenge is to automate this process and make this at least 95% accurate automatically.
WE are NOT looking to have imagick automate the cut-out procedure, or cut the image
out. All we are doing is running an algorithm that reliably detects “is this image a cut-out or
a regular photo with a background.”
When we have set-up Imagick to search for a proportion of white background, that will
typically pick out the cut-out but will also pick out, incorrectly photographs, that are
campaign shots with depth, that are mistaken for cut-outs.
IF we can improve the algorithm to 95+% then we can manually fix these tricky ones quite easily.
the issue is that we are dealing with thousands of images a day... So its a large
volume to process.
If anyone has any ideas, existing scripts, or can custom write one, we'd be grateful to hear from you.
We operate an image library
The pictures we carry are either:
a) Product cut-out Shots on a white or off-white background
b) Normal photographs with depth for Campaign Images, Model Images or Lifestyle shots.
We want to create a simple image search filter that allows the user to select
a) Product cut-outs Images
b) By definition everything else that is NOT a cutout. e.g. Normal Photos with a
background etc.
The challenge is to automate this process and make this at least 95% accurate automatically.
WE are NOT looking to have imagick automate the cut-out procedure, or cut the image
out. All we are doing is running an algorithm that reliably detects “is this image a cut-out or
a regular photo with a background.”
When we have set-up Imagick to search for a proportion of white background, that will
typically pick out the cut-out but will also pick out, incorrectly photographs, that are
campaign shots with depth, that are mistaken for cut-outs.
IF we can improve the algorithm to 95+% then we can manually fix these tricky ones quite easily.
the issue is that we are dealing with thousands of images a day... So its a large
volume to process.
If anyone has any ideas, existing scripts, or can custom write one, we'd be grateful to hear from you.